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1、WORK, CONSUMERISM AND THE NEW POOR Second Edition Reviewers comments on the first edition: “Zygmunt Bauman presents a cogently argued and compelling thesis.an important book from a distinguished scholar that adds a new dimension to the poverty debate.” British Journal of Sociology “Bauman provides a
2、 very forceful and sophisticated statement of the case; and a very well written one too. As a wide ranging analysis of our present discontents it is an admirable example of the sort of challenge which sociology at its best can offer to us and our fellow citizens to re-assess and re-think our current
3、 social arrangements.” Work, Employment and Society It is one thing to be poor in a society of producers and universal employment; it is quite a different thing to be poor in a society of consumers, in which life projects are built around consumer choices rather than on work, professional skills or
4、jobs. Where being poor was once linked to being unemployed, today it draws its meaning primarily from the plight of a flawed consumer. This has a significant effect on the way living in poverty is experienced and on the prospects for redeeming its misery. Work, Consumerism and the New Poortraces thi
5、s change over the duration of modern history. It makes an inventory of its social consequences, and considers how effective different ways of fighting poverty and relieving its hardships are. The new edition of this seminal work features: Updated coverage of key thinkers in the field Discussion of r
6、ecent work on redundancy, disposability and exclusion Current thinking on the effects of capital flows on different countries and the changes on the shop floor through, for example, business process re-engineering New material on security and vulnerability Key reading for students and lecturers in s
7、ociology, politics and social policy, and those with an interest in contemporary social issues. Zygmunt Bauman is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK. He is recognized worldwide as one of the foremost commentators on the postmodern condition. He is the author of many books
8、 on social thought, including Freedom(Open University Press), Modernity and the Holocaust, Globalization: the Human Consequence, The Individualised Society andSociety under Siege. Cover design: Barker/Hilsdon Work, consumerism and the new poorBauman I S S U E S I N S O C I E T Y Series editor: Tim M
9、ay I S S U E S I N S O C I E T Y Series editor: Tim May Work, consumerism and the new poor Second Edition Zygmunt Bauman ? ? ? ? www.openup.co.uk Second Edition Work consumerismpb 8/17/04 11:25 AM Page 1 Work, Consumerism and the New Poor Second Edition Issues in Society Series editor: Tim May Curre
10、nt and forthcoming titles: Zygmunt Bauman: Work, Consumerism and the New Poor (2nd edn) David Byrne: Social Exclusion (2nd edn) Graham Crow: Social Solidarities Mitchell Dean: Governing Societies Gerard Delanty: Citizenship in a Global Age Steve Fuller: The Governance of Science David Knights and Da
11、rren McCabe: Organization and Innovation: Guru Schemes and American Dreams Nick Lee: Childhood and Society David Lyon: Surveillance Society Linda McKie: Families, Violence and Social Change Graham Scambler: Health and Social Change Graham Scambler: Sport and Society: History, Power and Culture Piet
12、Strydom: Risk, Environment and Society Work, Consumerism and the New Poor Second Edition ZYGMUNT BAUMAN OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESSMaidenhead.New York Open University Press McGraw-Hill Education McGraw-Hill House Shoppenhangers Road Maidenhead Berkshire England SL6 2QL email: enquiriesopenup.co.uk world w
13、ide web: www.openup.co.uk and Two Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10121-2289, USA First published 2005 Copyright # Zygmut Bauman 2005 All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieva
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15、he Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd of 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 4LP. A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0335 21598 X (pb) 0335 21599 8(hb) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data CIP data applied for Typeset by YHT Ltd, London Printed in t
16、he UK by MPG Books Limited, Bodmin, Cornwall Contents Series editors forewordvii Introduction to the fi rst edition1 Part I3 1 The meaning of work: producing the work ethic5 2 From the work ethic to the aesthetic of consumption23 Part II43 3 The rise and fall of the welfare state45 4 The work ethic
17、and the new poor63 5 Work and redundancy in the globalized world87 Part III103 6 Prospects for the new poor105 Notes122 Index129 Series editors foreword The social sciences contribute to a greater understanding of the working of societies and dynamics of social life. However, they are often not give
18、n due credit for this role and much writing has been devoted to why this should be the case. At the same time, we are living in an age in which the role of science in society is being re-evaluated. This has led to both a defence of science as the disinterested pursuit of knowledge and an attack on s
19、cience as nothing more than an institutionalized assertion of faith with no greater claim to validity than mythology and folklore. These debates tend to generate more heat than light. In the meantime, the social sciences, in order to remain vibrant and relevant, will refl ect the changing nature of
20、these public debates. In so doing, they provide mirrors upon which we gaze in order to understand not only what we have been and what we are now, but to inform ideas about what we might become. This is not simply about understanding the reasons people give for their actions in terms of the contexts
21、in which they act as well as about analysing the relations of cause and effect in the social, political and economic spheres, but about the hopes, wishes and aspirations that people, in their different cultural ways, hold. In any society that claims to have democratic aspirations, these hopes and wi
22、shes are not for the social scientist to prescribe. For this to happen it would mean that the social sciences would be able to predict human behaviour with certainty. This would require one theory and one method applicable to all times and places. The physical sciences do not live up to such stringe
23、nt criteria, while the conditions in societies which provided for this outcome, were it possible, would be intolerable. Why? Because a necessary condition of human freedom is the ability to have acted other- wise and to imagine and practice different ways of organizing societies and living together.
24、 It does not follow from the above that social scientists do not have a valued role to play, as is often assumed in ideological attacks upon their place and function within society. After all, in focusing upon what we have been and what we are now, what we might become is inevitably illumi- nated. T
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